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“Fascism, the more it considers and observes the future and the development of humanity, quite apart from political considerations of the moment, believes neither in the possibility nor the utility of perpetual peace.”
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“Ye towers of Julius, London's lasting shame, With many a foul and midnight murder fed.”
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“My worryingly paradoxical thought process could be summarized thus: Thank God I don't believe in the secret rulers of the world. Imagine what the secret rulers of the world might do to me if I did!”
Source : Jon Ronson (2012). “Jon Ronson's Adventures With Extraordinary People”, p.120, Pan Macmillan
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“I don't speak fluent bumpkin...”
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“In the night the cabbages catch at the moon, the leaves drip silver, the rows of cabbages are a series of little silver waterfalls in the moon.”
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“Like the pain of a bad wound, the effect of a deep shock takes some while to be felt. When a child is told, for the first time in his life, that a person he has known is dead, although he does not disbelieve it, he may well fail to comprehend it and later ask--perhaps more than once--where the dead person is and when he is coming back.”
Source : Richard Adams (2014). “Watership Down”, p.187, Oneworld Publications
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“Books are the training weights of the mind.”
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“And there's no damage to the car. Except to the car itself.”
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“Gardening is about communication, relationships, routines and life-enrichment. Gardens are places that connect us to the seasons and the life cycle. They're a vehicle for talking about esoteric and - as far as TV goes - alien topics such as beauty and fulfilment.”
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“We must assist the British in the war as if there were no White Paper and we must resist the White Paper as if there were no war.”
